[Air-L] on the Wayback Machine (was public/private [part 1 of 2])

[Conor Schaefer]

Yeah, I've seen many similar instances, such as a man caught urinating 
by the roadside, a woman getting in or out of her car with her thong 
exposed... while I agree that all these things are indeed occurring in 
public and therefore it is not a violation of privacy to post them, even 
for archival, I simply cannot agree with your statement that the 
organizations responsible for this dissemination "were not adding to the 
potential audience."

I think that notions of what constitutes privacy will shift gradually. 
There will /always /be a public/private dichotomy of sometime, IMO.

Conor

Lois Ann Scheidt wrote:
>
> Not to mention the potential embarrassment to the gentleman from 
> Arizona - I think it was Arizona - who was captured sitting on a park 
> bench picking his nose.  The potential embarrassment would be increased 
> - at least in some writers estimation - because all the late night talk 
> show hosts pointed directly at this guy in their monologues...even 
> giving the URL in some cases.
>
> HOWEVER, since the action in question - said nose picking - took place 
> in public and was captured and posted on the web...the late night talk 
> show hosts might have been shining a brighter light on the whole thing 
> but they were not adding to the potential audience.
>
>
> Lois
>
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